12/17 Mt Hope Ride

Matt (Tiger Rag) and I went up to see James and get a sheave put in his Rhino and figured we would make a day of it and ride. Left here at 5:30 am and got home at 3:00 am. It was a long day LOL

I had a great time, not so sure about Matt but thats another story LOL. I didn't take many pics but here are the few I did.

Thanks for the guide and help James!

Shew .... poor Matt ... what a day!!! Always nice to ride though ... glad ya'll got to make it up!!!!

nice picts,what happened to that differential!! did it break loose from the frame?

Interesting pics -- opposite of normal since only 1 Polaris and the rest are Rhino's.



Matt -- what happened? Looks like axle pulled out. Hope it was not a broken housing. I can't remember if you have a diff support installed.

Thanks for the pictures

Randy R wrote:

Interesting pics -- opposite of normal since only 1 Polaris and the rest are Rhino's.



Matt -- what happened? Looks like axle pulled out. Hope it was not a broken housing. I can't remember if you have a diff support installed.

i didnt think about that,but it is a rare occurance to see 4 rhinos and 1 razor on here!!! good to see there are still a few die hard rhino fans left!!!

Thanks for the pics.

redrhino, the diff broke away from the frame. Not sure how much damage is done yet. James has it and will be fixing it. It could be just little more than welding the brackets back on and better and replacing some boots. Hopefully thats all that is needed.

The other thing that might be needed is Matt may need some new underwear after having James jerk him through the woods in the dark at 40+mpg (with no headlights (dead battery) LOL.........poor Tiger Rag. It was a rough day!

neuromax wrote:

redrhino, the diff broke away from the frame. Not sure how much damage is done yet. James has it and will be fixing it. It could be just little more than welding the brackets back on and better and replacing some boots. Hopefully thats all that is needed.

The other thing that might be needed is Matt may need some new underwear after having James jerk him through the woods in the dark at 40+mpg (with no headlights (dead battery) LOL.........poor Tiger Rag. It was a rough day!

It could have been worse. Ricky could have been towing him

Diff supports are a recommended accessory. Guess Matt now know why. I hate it for him since he has had a rough time trying to ride for the last several years.

This is a good chance for James to soup it up!!

CommAndrew wrote:

neuromax wrote:

redrhino, the diff broke away from the frame. Not sure how much damage is done yet. James has it and will be fixing it. It could be just little more than welding the brackets back on and better and replacing some boots. Hopefully thats all that is needed.

The other thing that might be needed is Matt may need some new underwear after having James jerk him through the woods in the dark at 40+mpg (with no headlights (dead battery) LOL.........poor Tiger Rag. It was a rough day!

It could have been worse. Ricky could have been towing him

thats right

Wow....

neuromax wrote:

redrhino, the diff broke away from the frame. Not sure how much damage is done yet. James has it and will be fixing it. It could be just little more than welding the brackets back on and better and replacing some boots. Hopefully thats all that is needed.

The other thing that might be needed is Matt may need some new underwear after having James jerk him through the woods in the dark at 40+mpg (with no headlights (dead battery) LOL.........poor Tiger Rag. It was a rough day!

ive seen james drive on the videos,dont think id want him dragging my azz thru the woods at 40 in the dark!!! i hate he broke down,but thats some funny shit right there!!!

Nice pics! I bet he will like the new sheave from James!

Thanks for sharing the pic's. I'm sure Matt's Rhino wll get the JBS upgrade & he will not be disapointed.

Nice picts...thanks for sharing...

sounds like it was a heck of a time. thats crazy that a stock rhino has trouble getting much faster than 40 mph or so and HRR is pulling thw weight of 2 rhinos that fast. that thing has to be a beast. way to much for this guy to handle LOL

did you have to pull back through those off camber places? that would have been interesting

off camber, hills, mud holes, between trees around gates you name it and it had to be crossed or done LOL

it will do 0-40 faster towing one than when it was stock not towing

WV Hot Rod Rhino wrote:

it will do 0-40 faster towing one than when it was stock not towing

Yeah, that may have been the fastest my Rhino has ever been.....lol!

Had a bad break at the end but overall had a fun day! After I got over my dejection of breakage and was able to reflect back on the day I realized I had a pretty fun day!

We put the new JBS sheave in before the ride and all I can say is WOW! Completely different animal out of the hole and a lot more fun even though my Rhino wasn't running right. We think we may have figured that out too. Regardless, it would run unreal fast compared to previously, especially bottom end....lots more potential there after we get it running right too.

Now, I had another thought that we added so much torque that helped break the rear diff bracket at the end....just speculation though. I had thought about getting one of the reinforcement brackets (Randy I think I was the one who broght those to your attention - only you bought one and I didn't....oh well) but I thought by driving in 4wd most of the time would divert a lot of the stress on the rear end to the front end, hence not breaking the rear. Bad decision on my part. Hopefully James will be able to weld it up better than before and make it stronger and maybe I'll have a little luck out of an otherwise unlucky year and maybe I didn't break much else....we know a CV boot or two are is/are bad but hopefully they didn't break.

Anyway, fun day overall....looking forward to doing it again. I've got to head up to pick it up at some point so hopefully we can ride while I'm up there!

Also meant to say a BIG "Thank You" to all the guys who helped get my rig out of the woods and enjoyed riding all day with y'all! Thank you again!